Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the U.S. Constitution extends to men in uniform. Answering a contention by the Navy's Judge Advocate General that "military law is in nowise affected by constitutional limitations," the court said, "The time is long since past when this court will lend an attentive ear to the argument that members of the armed forces are, by reason of their status, ipso facto deprived of all protections of the Bill of Rights...
...only way loyalists of the Reading Dynamics enterprises can counter this evidence is by pointing to the small percentage of tuitions refunded. As the official pamphlet says, "The success of Reading Dynamics lies on its ability to teach successfully over 96 per cent of its pupils." This argument is valid only if there is a direct correlation between reading success and tuitions refunded. Unfortunately, there is an amazingly large gap between...
...want to create a world in which love is more possible," says an S.D.S leader, Carl Oglesby. For all their rant and naivete, the New Radicals can sound strongly appealing. The fact that many of their proposals are impractical and that they lack a program is not an ultimate argument against them. Critics may perform a service to a society by pointing out evil and injustice without necessarily offering alternatives. Some of the things the New Left says about modern American life need to be said and evoke certain echoes in anyone who has ever been in white-hot anger...
...politics, Svetlana was the person closest to Stalin during the last decade of his rule. It was a strange relationship, for the two had little in common. In looks and tem perament, Svetlana took after her mother, Nadezhda Allilueva, who was shot to death in 1932 shortly after an argument with Stalin. Like her mother, Svetlana was a free soul in a society fettered by her father, and has even adopted her mother's maiden name (she calls herself Svetlana Allilueva). As Stalin's daughter, she was, as she put it last week, "a kind of state property...
...majority of the 76-member body of lay and clerical experts had indeed agreed that it was time for a change. And the liberals wisely based their argument, for the most part, not on the impersonal and narrow ground of population control, but on the contention that contraception can contribute to a happier married life. "If they are to observe and cultivate all the essential val ues of marriage," said the majority report, "married people need decent and human means for the regulation of conception. They should be able to expect the collaboration of all, especially from men of learning...